Manufacture of alimentary products.



Mensa, or :vrnssn, Gunman,

LUDWIG E. MEYER,

EANUFACQURE OF ALIMENTARY PBODUO'IS, f

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- Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed January 20, 1912. Serial No. 672,472.

Assronoa r animation mnxnnsrsim or BERLIN, Gent. 1; 1

-Patented est; 14,1913.

To all whom; it may concern Be it known that I Pmmrr MiiLLsR, merchant, residing at iTilbel near Frankfort-on-the-Mai Germany, have invented n new and useful improvements in the Mannfacture of Alimentary Products, of which i the following is a specification.

* -manufacturinfi sugar but wit in precipitating the curd the whole m' k used.

"milk and a quantity 0 The method forming the subject of the present invention relates to the process of a milk food low in salts and a normal fat and casein content, especially ada ted as a food for infants as described and c aimed in the application for a patent Ser. No. 547772, and consisting mass from a given the same whole milk from which the curd mass was precipitated. This method however is attended by the drawback that the whey separated from the mass of curd (casein and fat) leads awa a certain art of the fat of o overcome this drawback in the present method skim milk is used for precipitatin instead of whole fat corresponding to the difierence of fat of the whole milk and of the skim milk is added thereto. In using skim milk for precipitating the curd mass, the loss diet caused by leading the fat away with the whey will be less than it is in new whole milk.

Examp e: Ten liters of skim milk are treated with rennet, the milk fat in a form as concentrated as possible obtained by centrifugal action or by souring is then added to the precipitated casein or to the casein mixed with buttermilk in such a quantity that the content of fat of the mixture corres ends to that obtained by treating whole mi c with rennet. Furthermore it has been found that it is preferable to carr out the process in such a manner that on y a half part byvolume of buttermilk or skim milk I 18 added to and mixed with the curd mass "and fat, the u'antity of watercorrespondadded by the consumer himself immediately before using the food. This method of performing the process offers the advantage that, suppose the recipitation .of curd mass being performe by treatingithe milk with rennet, the degree of a'cidit of. the concentrated food Wlll be such a avorable one that b this fact the stability of food is essential y greater as is the case with a food thinned with water from the first. Finally, the cost of the containers and of trans ortation will be reduced by one half.

It as been stated that the recipitation of curd mass (casein and fat) 18 most preferably performed by treating milk with rennet or a rennet-ferment, the preci itation by means of a suitable acid deman ing the addition of an alkali for reducing acldity to a normal degree, but scientific investigations have shown that the stability of food as well as the assimilation of it by normal infants will-be reduced by the addition of alkali. Finally in the manner before described the charges for transport of the food are depressed by one-half and the vessels diminished.

Having thus described my invention, what I I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The herein described process of manufacturing a milk food low in salts and sugar but with a normal fat and casein content especially adapted as a food for infants, consistin in precipitating the curd mass from a Igiven quantity of skim milk, adding fat to t is precipitated curd mass and mixing the curd mass and the fat with milk from which the fat has been removed and water, the volume of each of these added inredients bein substantially equal to one alf of the V0 ume of the skim milk, from which the curd mass is precipitated, substantially as and for the urpose described.

In testimony whereof affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

PHILIPP'MULLER. Witnesses: I r a JEAN Grimm),- CARI" Gamma.-

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